Parish church Gumpoldskirchen
The Roman Catholic parish church of Gumpoldskirchen is located in the municipality of Gumpoldskirchen in the Mödling district in Lower Austria . It is consecrated to St. Michael and belongs to the dean's office Mödling in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The building is a listed building .
Location description
The church dominates the market town on the church square with the Teutonic Order Castle next to it in an elevated position as a former castle church with a formerly fortified churchyard wall and moat .
history
The church is accepted from 1200 as a branch church of the Traiskirchen mother church of Melk Abbey . A pastor is mentioned in a document for 1216 . With 1241 the church is under the patronage of the Teutonic Order .
Building description
A defense tower is presented to the Gothic hall from the second half of the 14th century . The church is characterized by the fact that the nave and choir are of the same width and height.
Furnishing
The device is a late-Baroque high altar , side altars and a Rococo - pulpit . In the south there is a small Gothic side chapel , in the north there is a two-storey sacristy , restored around 1597 and extended by another side chapel around 1730. The tower around 1400 with a square floor plan made of unplastered ashlars merges with sloping roof spandrels into an octagonal bell storey with pointed arched sound windows and ends with a pointed helmet roof around 1870. In the tympanum from the 15th century on the nave portal is a painting Christ with disciples of Emmaus ( Lk 24, 13–35 EU ) by the painter Franz Bilko from 1945 to 1946. The organ from 1989 is by Helmut Allgäuer in a classicist case by Josef Loyp from 1837.
literature
- Alfred Fischeneder-Meiseneder: The architecture of the Gothic in the east of Austria. Studies of sacred buildings in the 14th and 15th centuries with a focus on the period around 1400 . Diss. University of Vienna 2016, p. 102.
- Art. Gumpoldskirchen, parish church hl. Michael. In: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria south of the Danube . Edited by Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger, Evelyn Benesch, Kurt Bleicher, Sibylle Grün, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Herbert Karner, Katharina Packpfeifer, Anna Piuk, Gabriele Russwurm-Biró, Otmar Rychlik, Agnes Szendey, Franz Peter Wanek. Contributions by Christian Benedik, Christa Farka, Ulrike Knall-Brskovsky, Johann Kräftner , Markus Kristan, Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer , Marianne Pollak , Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka, Ronald Woldron. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , pages 614–616.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 27.5 ″ E